Two days back in the corner of one of their irrelevant pages, TOI carried the news of the execution of Dilara Derabi, an Iranian girl who was charged with the murder of her father’s cousin at the age of 17, she spent five years in jail and admitted her guilt with the hope that the juvenile court would reduce her sentence, instead she was executed at the age of 23 without her lawyer or any of her family members being informed.
Consider the same situation only difference being the country in which it is set, I cannot imagine the repercussions of such a heinous decision in a country like India. I know for a fact that there would have been complete breakdown of the judicial system with human rights activists and even the common people demanding answers, reference: the hullabaloo about Dhananjay Chatterjee’s execution.
Sometimes I think whatever it is; nobody in this country will be executed in accordance with the Islamic shariat or the religious practices of Hinduism or Judaism or Christianity. Living in a secular state is almost comforting because I know that if ever it is the case of an execution by law the decision has to be humane. Come to think of it our country upholds the voice of their citizens to a respectable measure. The people are a part of its legal and governing system, that I cannot deny. I actually am a proud citizen, not overlooking the short-comings or the loopholes.
Meanwhile my respects for Dilara, the only crime I find her guilty of is for being born in the wrong country. Rest in peace.
PS: I wonder if these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it articles are mere page fillers or does anybody really care.
2 comments:
Nice :)
It's those stories, the really tiny ones below the obnoxious underwear ads that really are news-worthy. Ah well, it's a sell out world. Pretty soon they go obsolete too. And we have pages full of crap :( Precisely why I hate Indian journalism and it's ethics.
It's finding divinity in oneself. The sooner we realize that, the easier life will be for us. Think of it, the only corner of the universe which we truly know and can change is ourselves. Doesn't that say something ?
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